Vista 32bit shows 4gb ram....

[tystar]

Hey all, thought i'd share this with you all as i was as surprised as anyone to see this.

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff185/tystar75/Untitled.jpg

this was taken from my own system.

I thought i'd take the memory out of my media centre to see how much would actually show before i invested in vista 64bit.
so i was well surprised to see 4gb ram showing in 32bit vista. but i'm happy :mrgreen:

[tystar]

Also Screenshot with cpu-z showing 4gb installed.

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff185/tystar75/Untitled-1.jpg

[mac124]

So what's the full spec of said system? And have you installed any patches etc?

[tystar]

full spec in my sig and no patches. only install windows updates and thats it.

[coiler]

SP1 install may have fixed it?

[tystar]

found this page that clears up why i can see 4gb ram now in 32bit vista.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946003

[mac124]

Sounds like it only reports it but still cannot fully utilise it?

[tystar]

I know, still nice to see it showing the full 4gb though.

will probably upgrade to 64bit and see if there's much of a difference though.

[cleggypdc]

be careful for 64-bit drivers before hand though :)

[Sl4x0r]

"This change occurs because Windows Vista with SP1 reports how much physical memory installed on your computer. All versions of Windows NT-based operating systems before Windows Vista Service SP1 report how much memory available to the operating system. This change in Windows Vista SP1 is a reporting change only."